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The Father 45
The child in man and the greater the man
the more dominant the child in him has ever
succumbed to the Earth Spirit, Woman, and as
long as that is her only drawing power, Man,
with all his strength and genius, will ever be at her
feet.
The Earth Spirit is motherhood carrying the
race in its womb; the flame of life luring the
moth, often against its will, to destruction.
In all of Strindberg s plays we see the flame
of life at work, ravishing man s brain, consuming
man s faith, rousing man s passion. Always, al
ways the flame of life is drawing its victims with
irresistible force. August Strindberg s arraign
ment of that force is at the same time a confes
sion of faith. He, too, was the child of woman,
and utterly helpless before her.
THE FATHER
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THE Father
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portrays the tragedy of a man
and a woman struggling for the possession of their
child. The father, a cavalry captain, is intel
lectual, a freethinker, a man of ideas. His wife
is narrow, selfish, and unscrupulous in her methods
when her antagonism is wakened.
Other members of the family are the wife s
mother, a Spiritualist, and the Captain s old nurse,
Margret, ignorant and superstitious. The father
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